“On the night of New Years Day, I thought of a wonderful New Years resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.”

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”

“I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.”

“When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system.”

“For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?”

“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”

“Voting is a civic sacrament.”

“In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.”